A guide which explains what managed cloud services are and helps you assess whether building your own in-house capability, or outsourcing to a specialist provider is the right choice for your organisation.

This report uses interviews and focus groups with 28 charities held with communications network CharityComms, to offer insight and advice on using digital services to drive better volunteer engagement.

This report examines what is motivating local authorities to move to the cloud, how IT leaders are managing the transition and how they ensure their plans stay on track to achieve the business’s objectives.

We examine key areas of website performance to help charities improve how they use their site for fundraising. We look at mobile performance, desktop speed, accessibility and the overall donation journey on PC and mobile. We also compare the website performance of five major categories of charities; aid, children, environment, health and animal and interview digital leads from some of the UK's biggest charities to identify concerns and examples of best practice.

This step-by-step guide will help government organisations through the process of procuring cloud services via Digital Marketplace. It covers what accredited cloud services are, procurement preparation, comparing suppliers and how to make the final decision. The guide offers insight and questions to ask at every stage of the procurement cycle to help government compare suppliers on a like-for-like basis.

This report will help government IT decision-makers look at how they can use cloud to transform their organisation and improve services. Based on a survey of 800 civil servants and interviews with senior civil servants and CIOs on the current state of government cloud adoption along with future plans.

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We look at how digital and IT teams can work together to successfully manage and deliver digital projects in the charity sector. We also look at roles and responsibilities, what barriers prevent charities improving the delivery of digital projects, and how these can be overcome in co-operation with IT to deliver the best results.

Our recent survey titled “Librarians’ experiences and perceptions of Identity and Access Management” collected responses from over 550 librarians worldwide, over 60% of which told us that access management is a source of friction.
Respondents primarily cited the lim...

Fifteen years ago I attended a publishing conference that included a session from a senior European executive at Google.
One thought has stuck with me over the years: Google wanted to “Get the user off the Google homepage and to the information they were looking for as ...

A redesigned login process for OpenAthens subscribers was presented at last week’s OpenAthens UK user group meeting in London.
Eighteen attendees from higher and further education sites came along to the second of the new format meetings, held at the School of Oriental ...